> Mark,
>
> Please straighen me out:
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > The hosts.deny file is a file that Portsentry uses to keep track of ip
> > addresses of machines that have scanned your machine's ports and tried to
> > gain access to your machine.
>
> ai4a says that his hosts.deny file contains "ALL: ALL: DENY". Doesn't
> that mean that no one can log into his machine unless they are
> specifically mentioned in the hosts.allow file? (And regardless of
> whether portsentry is running or not?)
Randy,
In answer to your question, that is, I believe, one way of putting it in
that file, however there was another response in this thread where a
gentleman expressed another method that I believe would be even more
thorough. But yes, what you're saying will work.
Mark
